By Diamantos Anastasiou
As you teach us, a very important condition for the implementation of humanitarian education in schools is dialogue. With dialogue comes next most of the time the disagreement, which you taught us to accept with pleasure and good mood for discussion. But how many of you "right" teachers follow what you owe it to your children to teach?
All students have the right to discuss something that concerns them with their teachers, even if they are wrong. As long as they speak in the right way and express themselves properly they can say whatever they want. Every year our teachers remind us that they are our friends and support us. How true is this?
From my personal experience I have come to the conclusion that very few teachers consider their work a function and are anxious with the anguish of the children and rejoice in their joy. A few hours ago I was badly expelled from the school I attended for 3 years, the Lyceum of Kokkinochorion Fotis Pitta. This was because after graduation I found one of my teachers and asked her to explain to me why I think I was wronged. I was accompanied by my sister who did not speak at all during the discussion because she rightly thought that the issue was between me and my teacher. She told me to talk to her in front of other teachers and I replied that I would like to talk to her personally. We moved away from the others a bit and started a decent dialogue. At one point, however, another teacher who was sitting next to me listening to the conversation approached me with hostility and told me to leave my teacher alone and not to upset her because she was pregnant. When I went to explain to her that we were just talking, they approached me, as if I were a criminal who was threatening her physical integrity, another teacher and they started shouting at me that I did not respect her condition. My sister told them to let me talk politely with my teacher as we had started but they insisted on shouting and doing a HUMANITARIAN DIALOGUE on their own!
Without letting either me or my sister get the word out, the teacher, who knew me personally for the last year after he taught me a lesson, told us to leave immediately and stop harassing the teacher. I told them that they all have children and when they can not find their right because some do not even let them talk then they will take the position of me and my family. When we left, one of the professors in the most ironic way she possessed told us that our value would be seen in the university.
By what right am I being expelled in the worst way from the school I attended for 3 years without causing problems? By what right do they deprive me of my freedom of speech and expression? By what right do they treat me like I was the worst criminal? And finally, by what right do they teach me not to do all that they did to me?
Even if I was wrong, they could explain it to me in simple words and not in voices making scenes.
To emphasize that only one assistant director supported me when I called her to report the incident. Well, you can expel us from schools but you can not keep our mouth shut !! I'm sorry for YOUR humanitarian education…